The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-07-22

DEAN SIR: I inclosc herewith an
nual pass No. Q OSt for self and family
over your justly celebrated road during
the wear 1887. also return your pho
togrsph and the letters you have writ
ten me during the past five yesfs. wan
you kindly return mineP And 20 TINS
brief and beautiful experience u to end
and each Of u must 80 his own way
hereafter.
Alas!
To you this may be easy, but y
brings pang 70 my heart which your
gentle letter u the LIST inst. cannot
wholly alleviate.
Whenever hereafter you look upon
this tear-spcckled pass will you not
think Of me? Remember that you
have east me from you and that am
wandering across the bleak and wind
swept plains sadly enumerating the ties
on my way 10 eternity.
| do not say this to reproach you. for
I fear that YOU care for another, and 50
we could not be happy again together
But, oh! do you pause 70 fully compre-
bend the pang II cost me 10 return this
pleasnut-faccd little pass with It's condi-
tions on the back? Could you sec LIE
even now, a. write these lines. turn
ing away ever and anon. laying asid
my trembling pen 20 60 and sit by the
crate and shuddcr and weep and put
out the fire with my bitter tears. your
| heart would soften and you would say;
..Return, q wanderer. returnr'
| You do not say in your letter that !
! have been false to you or that l have
| ever grown cold. You do not charge
me with infdelity or failure to pro-
vide. You simply say that il would
be better for each to 60 his scve-
raj ways. forgetting that my several
ways are passing away, passing away.
Ii is all well enough for you to talk
about going your several ways. You
have cvery facility for doing 50, but
with me It il different. Several years
ago large Northwestern cyclone and
myself tried TO pass each other on the
same track. When the wrecking crew
found me was in the crotch Of but
ternut tree, with broken leg. Sinc'
that time l have walked with grea
difficulty, and to 20 my several way
has been very serious matter will
me.
But | do not want you to think tina
am murmuiing. l accept my doom
calmly. yet with slight tinge OF Nm
ayiling regret
Some time, perhaps, in the middle Q
the dark and angry night, when To-
cold blasts wall through the TELEGRAPH
wires and the crashing sleet rushes Wit
l wild and impetuous fury against 70
windows Of your special car, - you u
warmly ensconced in your voluptuou
's berth and hear the pitiless winds Wit
= hoarse and croupy means chase eac
other around the Kansas haystacks Q
!. shrek wildly away as they light or
!. for their cherries homes in the Ba
7" Lands. will you not think Of me ~
rrope on blindly through the keen an
n pitiless blasts, stumbling over cattl
guards. falling into culverts and bea
ing out my rare young brains again
your rough right Of way, will you N
J think OF mep do not ask much
YOU. but do ask this Is we separa
forever.
As YOU whiz BY me do not treat n
with contumcly. OF throw crackers
G.. me when have meckly turned out
let your naughty old train 60 BY.
have always spoken Of you 10 =
:. highest terms, and hope you will
the same by me.
Life Is short at the best, and u 10
- pecially 50 for those who have 70 wal
Walking has already shortened my
a great deal, and wouldn't % .
prised IL the exposure and bunions
n the wear 1887 carried me of, leaving
rap in American literature that y
look like new cellar.
IS Should any of your engineers
trackmen find me frozen in cut ~
winter. when the grass gets short
the nights get long, win you kindly
:. them to report the brand 70 u
81, auditor and instruct him TO allow
family what he thinks would be rig
~ hate to write to You in this dejec
manner, but you cannot understs
how heavy my heart Is to-day -
these lines.
wish you and your beautiful r
unmitigated success. Il isa good 70
for have passed over II and enjoyet
How different the country will look
X me as 60 bounding from re %
slowly repeating to myself the trite
mark once made BY the Governor
- North Carolina TO the Executive
~. South Carolina!
hope you may never know wha
III. Is to pull into the quaint little city
mr. La Junta with the dust Of many Or
or upon you and the thirst Of long,
on eventiul journey in your throat.
tan hope that Congress win not pass
lete next year which win make Il a Eel
eIe- for railroad man to say gosh y
age out permit. ! hope that your lie
LIE be chuck full Of hurrah and hallclu
and even IL mine SHOULD be always b
As and joylcss. !.
r Il Can do your road any good, ei
Il home or abroadp Can Be Of
"a vice 70 you over your right Of way